Rock Steady and Reggae legend Barry Llewellyn has turned away for good. As a founding member of the Heptones he was part of one of the finest vocal groups of all times and will be remembered as one of Reggae’s biggest heroes. What a gift to have seen Barry and the Heptones live on stage a couple of years ago. Praises to the man.Read more…

The Jamaica Gleaner about many veteran artistes‘ problem: their more recent productions are disregarded and aren’t played, because everybody wants to listen to their old stuff.

Artistes from the rocksteady and roots-reggae eras, including Bob Andy, Leroy Sibbles, John Holt and Ernie Smith, have complained that their new music is ignored by local disc jockeys who prefer to play their standards from the 1960s and 1970s.

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“Skinhead is, above all else, a style community. That is to say, it is a community in which the primary site of identity is personal style.”by Timothy S. Brown Journal of Social History Vol.38, No.1 (Fall 2004)